Part 3Audits and Community controls

Powers of the Food Standards Agency undertaking audits on behalf of the Secretary of State

9.—(1) Where the Secretary of State arranges for the Food Standards Agency to undertake an audit in relation to relevant legislation, the audit provisions of the 2006 Regulations shall apply as if—

(a)the undertaking of such an audit were a purpose described in regulations 8(1) and 9(1) of the 2006 Regulations; and

(b)the competent authority concerned were an enforcement authority to which regulations 8 and 9 of the 2006 Regulations applied.

(2) The audit provisions of the 2006 Regulations are—

(a)regulations 8 and 9(1) to (8) and (10), as read with regulation 10; and

(b)regulation 11.

(3) Regulations 17(2), (4) and (5)(c), 18(2) to (9), 19 to 21, 41 to 43, 45 and 46 of the 2006 Regulations shall apply where paragraph (1) of this regulation applies as if that paragraph were a provision of the 2006 Regulations falling to be enforced or executed under the 2006 Regulations.